Political Wire: Bush Had More Info than Congress

Taegan Goddard at Political Wire.com points to a Congressional Research Service report suggesting the Bush administration did in fact see intel on Iraq prior to the war that they never shared with Congress:

"[The President] had access to more intelligence and reviewed more sensitive material than what was shared with Congress when it gave Bush the authority to wage war against Iraq." -- Congressional Research Service report, released December 15, 2005

Mr Goddard contrasts the contents of the report with a quote from President Bush just earlier this week:

"Some of the most irresponsible comments about manipulating intelligence have come from politicians who saw the same intelligence we saw, and then voted to authorize the use of force against Saddam Hussein." -- President Bush, December 14th, 2005 (above)

The administration has made a point of claiming Congress saw exactly what the President saw regarding pre-war intel on Iraq. Democrats in Congress have claimed the President mislead them -- and the nation -- by withholding some information that would have hurt the President's case for war. (PoliticalWire.com)